TDD Contracts in Somerset
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for TDD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TDD over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Somerset region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Rank 21 35 29
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -6
Contract jobs citing TDD 12 1 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 6.417% 0.602% 2.516%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.54% 1.042% 4.348%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 2
Average daily rate £310 £550 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-43.63% +37.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £550 £360
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £550 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £355
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -8.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -5.88%
All Processes & Methodologies
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 104 96 92
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 55.61% 57.83% 57.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 51 42
Average daily rate £335 £400 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.25% +12.67%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £230 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £433 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 12
Average hourly rate £17.50 £25.00 £15.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.00% +63.93%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.23 £22.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £25.00 £30.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
TDD
South West

TDD
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing TDD across the Somerset region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Somerset TDD Jobs Demand Trend

TDD
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing TDD across the Somerset region.

Somerset TDD Daily Rate Trend

TDD
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Taunton - 3 £318 -
Bridgwater - 2 £310 -
TDD
South West

TDD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset region citing TDD also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited TDD.

1 12 (92.31%) Java
1 12 (92.31%) JavaScript
1 12 (92.31%) C#
1 12 (92.31%) .NET
1 12 (92.31%) ASP.NET
2 11 (84.62%) HTML
3 10 (76.92%) ASP
3 10 (76.92%) SQL
4 9 (69.23%) CSS
4 9 (69.23%) Web Services
4 9 (69.23%) Retail
5 7 (53.85%) Agile Software Development
5 7 (53.85%) MVC
5 7 (53.85%) SQL Server
6 6 (46.15%) Spring MVC
6 6 (46.15%) Spring
7 4 (30.77%) J2EE
8 3 (23.08%) HTML5
8 3 (23.08%) VB
8 3 (23.08%) VB.NET
8 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
9 2 (15.38%) JUnit
9 2 (15.38%) Scrum
9 2 (15.38%) Web Development
9 2 (15.38%) Product Management
10 1 (7.692%) MSTest
10 1 (7.692%) Feature Driven Development
10 1 (7.692%) .NET Framework
10 1 (7.692%) CruiseControl
10 1 (7.692%) Subversion

TDD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset region citing TDD also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited TDD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (92.31%) .NET
1 12 (92.31%) ASP.NET
2 11 (84.62%) HTML
3 10 (76.92%) ASP
4 9 (69.23%) CSS
4 9 (69.23%) Web Services
5 6 (46.15%) Spring MVC
5 6 (46.15%) Spring
6 4 (30.77%) J2EE
7 3 (23.08%) HTML5
8 1 (7.692%) .NET Framework
8 1 (7.692%) jQuery
8 1 (7.692%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.692%) IIS
1 1 (7.692%) SharePoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.692%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) JUnit
2 1 (7.692%) MSTest
2 1 (7.692%) CruiseControl
2 1 (7.692%) Subversion
2 1 (7.692%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.692%) NUnit
2 1 (7.692%) TeamCity
2 1 (7.692%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (7.692%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 9 (69.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Developer
2 5 (38.46%) .NET Developer
2 5 (38.46%) Web Developer
3 4 (30.77%) Java Developer
3 4 (30.77%) C# Developer
3 4 (30.77%) C# .NET Developer
4 3 (23.08%) ASP.NET Developer
4 3 (23.08%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) ASP Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Classic ASP Developer
6 1 (7.692%) .NET Software Engineer
6 1 (7.692%) C# Software Engineer
6 1 (7.692%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (7.692%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (7.692%) Architect
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.692%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Agile Software Development
1 7 (53.85%) MVC
2 2 (15.38%) Scrum
2 2 (15.38%) Web Development
2 2 (15.38%) Product Management
3 1 (7.692%) Feature Driven Development
3 1 (7.692%) Unit Testing
3 1 (7.692%) Test Scripting
3 1 (7.692%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (7.692%) Service Delivery
3 1 (7.692%) ITIL
3 1 (7.692%) UML
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) Java
1 12 (92.31%) JavaScript
1 12 (92.31%) C#
2 10 (76.92%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) VB
3 3 (23.08%) VB.NET
4 1 (7.692%) C++
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.692%) Oracle
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